The dehumanizing queues, the questions, the radiation, the vaguely prison camp-y feeling of it all. ‘The terrorists won,’ we thought. ‘Airport security is basically an existential nightmare for us all.’

But it doesn’t have to be.

One Red Tail IPA, one Dewer’s White on the rocks, one shot of espresso and one bowl of the elegant, disassociative cannabis strain Sunset Sherbet from the Bay Area’s master breeders at Cookies Fam, and you will be like:

‘Take my shoes off? Sure.

‘Zap my testes? Fine.

‘Rummage through my luggage? Whatever, man. Happy holidays.”

Bay Area residents with a doctor’s note for pot and a love of complex indica-dominant hybrids are going to love Sunset Sherbet in the new year. Available privately and at some collectives in the Bay and beyond, Sunset Sherbet is Girl Scout Cookies amplified, softened and sweetened, and equally as crazy stony-baloney as its forerunner. We’re talking about one of the most hyped upcoming strains in the world.

Sunset Sherbet descends from the most hyped strain of 2013 – Girl Scout Cookies. According to reports, GSC came from a NorCal Durban, a Florida Kush, and a secret strain known as “F1”. The breeding group behind it calls the Bay Area home, and recruited their friend and platinum selling rapper Berner as the public face of the “Cookies Fam”.

Real Cookies is as rare as it is hyped. Sometimes found at Cookies Fam-affiliate The Hemp Center medical marijuana dispensary in San Francisco, real Cookies is not available in seed or clone and sold privately. Still, the occasional bag seed in big batches led to numerous offshoots – Animal Cookies, Fortune Cookies, etc. – which won four Cannabis Cups in less than a year.

The Cookies Fam was just getting started, though. Now there’s Pink Panties, The Y and Sunset Sherbet, which is simply one of the best strains in existence – with a great look, a huge nose, huge taste and tap-out levels of THC. Sunset Sherbet is a cross of Girl Scout Cookies, OG Kush, Cherry Pie, and Durban back-crossed with Pink Panties. Our sample was grown in organic soil and had the dark, riotously multi-colored indica-influenced Cookies look. The trademark smell was dead-on — a complex, aroma that might pass for scrumptiously, acrid burnt cookie. But as you tease the layers of smell apart you get astringent kush notes, and dark, syrupy grape berry hints.

This funk will quickly saturate a room, so be warned. Up close, Sunset Sherbet is rock-dense, and seemingly wet with microscopic, resin glands called trichomes. Magnification reveals that the buds are utterly flocked with ripe trichome heads. With an after-taste of cream berry, patients report feeling trippy and wired for the first half-hour after use, then Sherbet settles down into a psychic gauze of IDGAF perfect for the inevitable plane delays at SFO.

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